WATCH: Quebecers will have to take a better look at their energy consumption. While there are no immediate changes, the province wants to introduce a new way of billing residents for their power consumption. It's all part of Quebec's economy minister Pierre Fitzgibbon's energy reform. Global's Gloria Henriquez reports.
“The energy board and Hydro-Québec could put programs together to incentivize people to consume at different times or to consume less and those would be optional,” Fitzgibbon said.To reach its climate targets, the province says it needs to make double the energy it’s currently producing.To accelerate those projects, Quebec wants to reduce bureaucracy.
“This will accelerate and move faster, yet this opens to the risk that without competing bids, maybe we will pay too much,” said Dr. Normand Mousseau, the academic director of the Trottier Energy Institute at Polytechnique Montréal.Lyme disease cases are rising. We don’t have a vaccine — but we used to